Erica flocciflora Benth.

Branches long and somewhat virgate, the younger cano-pubescent; leaves 4-nate, erect (at least the younger), oblong-linear, obtuse, keeled, sulcate, the younger tomentose-lanate, the older glabrous and glossy, about 2 lin. long; flowers mostly terminal, 3-nate (or 'occasionally lateral?' Bentham); pedicels tomentose, stout, 4 lin. long; bracts subapproximate, floccose-lanate; sepals ovate-oblong, subobtuse, keel-tipped, densely floccose-lanate, subscarious, 2 lin. long; corolla urceolate, mouth at maturity much contracted, tomentose, viscid, thick, 2 1/2-3 lin. long; limb short, erect; anthers 'broadly-crested' (Bentham); style exserted; stigma clavate; capsule nearly as large as the corolla, with a conical top, smooth, glossy, glabrous.